Re: Ports Clean

2007-07-13 Thread ajm
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 01:05:09PM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Friday 13 July 2007, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, My ports collection on some of the servers is wasting alot of space. What would be the best method to 'cleanout' the ports dir without adversly affecting the operation of

Re: How to mount USB key

2007-06-06 Thread ajm
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:21:56PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2007 12:57, Oscar Chavarria wrote: I want to copy files to it. I introduced the key and was recognized as da0. I did ls dev/da0 == dev/da0 Then mount /dev/da0 /home == incorrect super block. Thank

Re: music-generator for FreeBSD?

2007-05-01 Thread ajm
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:15:57PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:26:48AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:47:51 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, This is a bit off-topic, but maybe somebody out there can give me

Re: HP OfficeJet OJ5610

2007-03-28 Thread ajm
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:17:20PM -0400, Gerry Freymann wrote: Hello list members! The last time I bought a new printer I had to right away as the old one kicked the bucket and I had work related printed material I just had to print out, so I picked up a cheap Lexmark from Canadian Tire

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread ajm
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:51:06PM -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Jonathan Horne thusly... ... so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id like to try to try something thats not gnome, or basically id like to try some

Re: unlisted camera in gtkam?

2007-02-28 Thread ajm
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:48:54AM +0200, t nagu tundmatu wrote: Hello to all, I have a problem with gtkam ? my new camera (Pentax K10D) is not supported. I now got it listed in the menu but trying to 'add a new camera' gives a message 'could not initialize the camera.' Is there any trick

Re: Which version of Opera to use?

2007-01-27 Thread ajm
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 04:09:28PM +0100, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On stardate Sat, 27 Jan 2007, the wise Gerard Seibert entered: I have been thinking of trying Opera in KDE to see if it works better than Firefox. I have been having nothing but problems with Firefox and Flash. Would I

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-23 Thread ajm
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:16:54PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ajm wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: ajm wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: [snip

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-22 Thread ajm
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ajm wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: [snip] this is from a previous message in the thread: attempt: mount -tmsdos

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-21 Thread ajm
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: [snip] this is from a previous message in the thread: attempt: mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310 try as root or su to root # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310 -- Alexander FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386

Re: Problem with built-in USB memory card reader

2007-01-03 Thread ajm
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:54:08PM +0100, Alexander Pohoyda wrote: Micah wrote: Alexander Pohoyda wrote: Lowell Gilbert writes: Alexander Pohoyda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everything works perfect if the system is started with a memory card inserted into the reader.

Re: Is there reference manual for sh?

2006-12-30 Thread ajm
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 06:22:09PM -0600, Lane wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 12:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:16:20AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need a reference manual or specification for sh. Where can I find it?

Re: portversion vs. pkg_version

2006-12-24 Thread ajm
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 11:21:54PM +0800, Edward G.J. Lee wrote: On Sun, Dec 24, 2006, RW wrote: Personally, I don't like to get version information from the INDEX file, I'd rather get an accurate answer, than a fast one. Another reason I don't like portversion is that it's forever asking

Re: more GIMP qauestions.

2006-12-04 Thread ajm
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 05:53:10PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: A day or three ago I posted a question about turning off the grid (which was Off by-default). I did reply t the person o'er yonder by something happened to my mail. So this ACK. I've downloaded the

Re: umass mount woes

2006-12-03 Thread ajm
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:56:12PM -0800, Neil Short wrote: I got a new whiz-bang mp3 play from SanDisk. I went with SanDisk because they have always worked so well with non-windows for me. Anyway, I'm having a bit of a problem mounting it. Other umass devices work fine on my system. Any

Re: How do I turn off thed grid marking by-default?

2006-12-02 Thread ajm
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:54:20PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Sorry to ask this here, but I've spent hours playing around with The GIMP and googling for instructions to no avail. Whenever I ring up any jpg image, by default, I turned on a grid of +

Re: Mini-Freebsd system on ram, to reduce noise?

2006-11-26 Thread ajm
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Lars Udo wrote: Hello, fellow FreeBSD-users. I'm planning to build MiniBSD (from freebsd) with, these instructions: https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html i'v red it few times and came to realize, that if i could get that small FreeBSD why wouldnt i run

Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread ajm
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:09:58PM +0100, Ralf Schreijer wrote: Hi there! Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my life. After several tries on my own I decided to go through the installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I successfully installed and

Re: freebsd desktop | mozilla

2006-11-24 Thread ajm
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 03:41:11PM -0800, probsd org wrote: I'm a long time proponent of FreeBSD as a server. For a long time I've really wanted a FreeBSD system as a desktop. So, I decided to install the FreeBSD 6.2 and compile xorg, gnome, mozilla, etc... to give it a whirl. For

Re: cvsup problems....

2006-11-18 Thread ajm
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:25:57AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I usually use cvsup5.us.freebsd.org. but it has not given me any new bits for several days now. And if I use ANY other server what usually takes five minutes, takes 30-minutes to an hour (or they just hang). Which is

Re: Xine and mplayer will not install

2006-11-05 Thread ajm
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:43:29PM +0200, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 06:11:29 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a new install of 6.2beta3 and Gnome2.14.2 I am unable to install mplayer. It fails with the following message: === Installing for

Re: Problem updating mplayer

2006-10-17 Thread ajm
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:30:59AM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:32:25 +0200 Filippo Moretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ===Verifying reinstall for /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.p8_1,1 in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs ===

Re: Logitech optical mouse w/ scroll wheel

2006-10-11 Thread ajm
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 02:41:43PM -0700, William Tracy wrote: I thought I'd document my experiences with my Logitech optical USB mouse under FreeBSD 6.1 release 1 so that maybe it will help the next person hunting with Google. :-) Actually, I guess that's FreeBSD 6.1 release 0. :-P In my

Re: can't built /usr/ports/mail/mutt-ng

2006-10-04 Thread ajm
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:10:16PM -0400, Jeff Dickens wrote: This happens: y# make === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Found saved configuration for mutt-ng-20051110_1 = muttng-20051110.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch

Re: Making simple colorful block diagrams for presentations

2006-09-16 Thread ajm
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 11:57:35AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:20:00PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello, I want a simple tool that can be used for preparing block diagrams and arrows, that is all. I want to be able to use few colors, that is

Re: Firefox+Flash works for sure

2006-09-16 Thread ajm
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 08:33:11PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: I use linux-opera and I have managed to get flash working like a charm. Just go to any website using flash and opera will ask you to download the plugin and automatically take you to the linux page of the flash plugin in the adobe

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread ajm
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:56:30PM -0400, michael johnson wrote: On 9/14/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is

Re: easy patch management tools

2006-09-10 Thread ajm
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:06:14PM -0400, RJ wrote: Suggestions from another rookie(me): I use the ports tree and portsnap, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html, and when it's time to update the following one liner works great for me: cd /boot/ ; cp

Re: Making startup order static

2006-09-10 Thread ajm
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:11:36AM -0700, White Hat wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I need to keep several programs starting in a particular order. clamav-clamd clamav-freshclam clamsmtpd saslauthd dovecot postfix fetchmail By default, they do not start in that order. I have modified the rc.d

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-08 Thread ajm
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:02:51PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:52:41PM -0500, Chris wrote: If that's really a major goal then look into ion3 or ratpoison. I've been using ion3 for quite a while now and I'm happy. (you probably won't like it, though,

Re: having hard time with mounting floppies

2006-08-29 Thread ajm
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:27:06PM +0300, Tuomas wrote: ajm, Thanks for taking the pains to reply. This is what I tried: localhost# newfs -L FreeBSD /dev/fd0 newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 2879: Input/output error localhost# newfs_msdos -f 1440 -L MSDOS /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0: 2847

Re: having hard time with mounting floppies

2006-08-28 Thread ajm
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:37:55PM +0300, Tuomas wrote: Hi, all! I run DesktopBSD 1.0 and I cannot mount floppies. I had the same problem with FreeBSD 5.5. Here it goes: localhost# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error localhost# fdformat /dev/fd0

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-27 Thread ajm
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3)

Re: Mount Point permissions

2006-08-10 Thread ajm
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:40:46PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Bob Richards wrote: On Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:23, you wrote: What about chowning the permissions on /dev/fd0 to be root:floppyusers, I went so far as chown bob:bob /dev/fd0 But after newfs get's through with the new

Re: [Offtopic] CD art ...

2006-05-27 Thread ajm
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:03:46PM -0500, Mario Oyorzabal Salgado wrote: Hi, i'm newbie using freebsd, i like to print the fron, back and cover cd, but don't know where can get it, somebody can help me ? thank's, my freebsd version 5.4 and 6.1 =). greetings If you mean the cd jewel box

Re: Window Manager Opinions

2006-04-19 Thread ajm
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 07:02:17PM -0500, Patrick Bowen wrote: Huy Ton That wrote: Just a general question; not sure if it belongs in questions but let me know otherwise. I'm currently using gnome2 as my desktop environment on RC 6.1but it is a little dry; What are you all using out

Re: Wanted: Flash player for browser_of_choice....

2006-04-12 Thread ajm
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:15:23PM -0700, Vayu wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:20, Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/12/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:11:12PM -0400, Andy Reitz wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Ashley Moran wrote: On Wednesday 12

Re: fbdesk or idesk for fluxbox icons?

2006-02-11 Thread ajm
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 02:45:47AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: I'm trying to figure out fbdesk, but there is amazingly little to go on. Does anyone have any sample config files? Or should I be using idesk? I have fluxbox 0.9.14 on FreeBSD 6.0. I also sometimes can't get rid of the fluxbox